Then she used church records from 1635 to 1680 to come up with a similar list for Windsor, CT (which is about 100 miles southwest of Boston):

Mary
Sarah
Elizabeth
Abigail
Hanna

John
Samuel
Thomas
Nathaniel
Joseph

Caitlin noted an interesting “secular/Biblical divide” between baby names chosen at the two locations. Her post is worth a read. (As is her cool series on synonyms for “died” in early American epitaphs. One example is “Was Found Lashed to the Mast of His Sunken and Ill-Fated Vessel.”)